Dkim VB.NET Reference Documentation

Dkim

DomainKeys API for creating and verifying DKIM-Signature and DomainKey-Signature MIME (email) header fields. This API is included with the "Chilkat MIME" license. ("Chilkat MIME" may be referred to as "Chilkat S/MIME" on some chilkatsoft.com web pages. They are the same product.)

Object Creation

Dim obj As New Chilkat.Dkim()

Properties

AbortCurrent

When set to True, causes the currently running method to abort. Methods that always finish quickly (i.e.have no length file operations or network communications) are not affected. If no method is running, then this property is automatically reset to False when the next method is called. When the abort occurs, this property is reset to False. Both synchronous and asynchronous method calls can be aborted. (A synchronous method call could be aborted by setting this property from a separate thread.)

DebugLogFilePath

DebugLogFilePath As String

If set to a file path, causes each Chilkat method or property call to automatically append it's LastErrorText to the specified log file. The information is appended such that if a hang or crash occurs, it is possible to see the context in which the problem occurred, as well as a history of all Chilkat calls up to the point of the problem. The VerboseLogging property can be set to provide more detailed information.

This property is typically used for debugging the rare cases where a Chilkat method call hangs or generates an exception that halts program execution (i.e. crashes).
A hang or crash should generally never happen. The typical causes of a hang are:

a timeout related property was set to 0 to explicitly indicate that an infinite timeout is desired,

the hang is actually a hang within an event callback (i.e. it is a hang within the application code), or

there is an internal problem (bug) in the Chilkat code that causes the hang.

DkimDomain

DkimHeaders

DkimHeaders As String

A colon-separated list of header field names that identify headers presented to the signing algorithm when creating the DKIM-Signature. The default value is: "mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type".

DkimSelector

DkimSelector As String

The selector to be used to form the DNS query for the public key. This property applies to creating a DKIM-Signature. For example, if the selector is "reykjavik" and the domain is "example-code.com", then the DNS query would be for "reykjavik._domainkey.example-code.com".

DomainKeyDomain

DomainKeyHeaders

DomainKeyHeaders As String

A colon-separated list of header field names that identify headers presented to the signing algorithm when creating the DomainKey-Signature. The default value is: "mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type".

DomainKeySelector

DomainKeySelector As String

The selector to be used to form the DNS query for the public key. This property applies to creating a DomainKey-Signature. For example, if the selector is "reykjavik" and the domain is "example-code.com", then the DNS query would be for "reykjavik._domainkey.example-code.com".

HeartbeatMs

HeartbeatMs As Integer

The number of milliseconds between each AbortCheck event callback. The AbortCheck callback allows an application to abort any method call prior to completion. If HeartbeatMs is 0 (the default), no AbortCheck event callbacks will fire.

LastErrorText

LastErrorText As String (ReadOnly)

Provides information in plain-text format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

LastMethodSuccess

Indicate whether the last method call succeeded or failed. A value of True indicates success, a value of False indicates failure. This property is automatically set for method calls. It is not modified by property accesses. The property is automatically set to indicate success for the following types of method calls:

VerboseLogging

VerboseLogging As Boolean

If set to True, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is False. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

Version

Methods

AddDkimSignature

Function AddDkimSignature(ByVal mimeIn As Byte()) As Byte()

This method is deprecated. It will be removed in a future version.

Constructs and prepends a DKIM-Signature header to the MIME. Prior to calling this method, your program must set both the DkimDomain and DkimSelector properties, and it must load a private key by calling LoadDkimPk or LoadDkimPkFile.

AddDomainKeySignature

Function AddDomainKeySignature(ByVal mimeIn As Byte()) As Byte()

This method is deprecated. It will be removed in a future version.

Constructs and prepends a DomainKey-Signature header to the MIME. Prior to calling this method, your program must set both the DomainKeyDomain and DomainKeySelector properties, and it must load a private key by calling LoadDomainKeyPk or LoadDomainKeyPkFile.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the DomainKeySign method instead.

DkimSign

Constructs and prepends a DKIM-Signature header to the MIME passed in mimeData. Prior to calling this method, your program must set both the DkimDomain and DkimSelector properties, and it must load a private key by calling SetDkimPrivateKey.

DomainKeySign

Constructs and prepends a DomainKey-Signature header to the MIME passed in mimeData. Prior to calling this method, your program must set both the DomainKeyDomain and DomainKeySelector properties, and it must load a private key by calling SetDomainKeyPrivateKey.

LoadDkimPk

Loads an RSA private key to be used for creating a DKIM-Signature. Any valid RSA private key format that is not binary, such as PEM or XML, may be passed to this method. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted, such as for encrypted PEM.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDkimPrivateKey method instead.

LoadDkimPkBytes

Loads an RSA private key to be used for creating a DKIM-Signature. Any valid RSA private key binary format, such as DER, may be passed to this method. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDkimPrivateKey method instead.

LoadDkimPkFile

Loads an RSA private key file to be used for creating a DKIM-Signature. The file name contains any valid RSA private key format, such as DER, PKCS8, PEM, XML, etc. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted, such as for encrypted PEM or encrypted PKCS8.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDkimPrivateKey method instead.

LoadDomainKeyPk

Loads an RSA private key to be used for creating a DomainKey-Signature. Any valid RSA private key format that is not binary, such as PEM or XML, may be passed to this method. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted, such as for encrypted PEM.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDomainKeyPrivateKey method instead.

LoadDomainKeyPkBytes

Loads an RSA private key to be used for creating a DomainKey-Signature. Any valid RSA private key binary format, such as DER, may be passed to this method. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDomainKeyPrivateKey method instead.

LoadDomainKeyPkFile

Loads an RSA private key file to be used for creating a DomainKey-Signature. The file name contains any valid RSA private key format, such as DER, PKCS8, PEM, XML, etc. This method will automatically determine the format and parse it correctly. A password is only required if key is encrypted, such as for encrypted PEM or encrypted PKCS8.

Note: This method is deprecated. Use the SetDomainKeyPrivateKey method instead.

LoadPublicKey

Caches a public key to be used for verifying DKIM and DomainKey signatures for a given selector and domain. The publicKey is a string containing an RSA public key in any text format, such as XML, PEM, etc. This method will automatically detect the format and load the public key correctly. This method is useful for testing DKIM and DomainKey verification when your public key has not yet been installed in DNS.

LoadPublicKeyFile

Caches a public key to be used for verifying DKIM and DomainKey signatures for a given selector and domain. The publicKeyFilepath is a filepath of an RSA public key in any format. This method will automatically detect the format and load the public key correctly. This method is useful for testing DKIM and DomainKey verification when your public key has not yet been installed in DNS.

PrefetchPublicKey

Useful if your application is going to verify many emails from a single domain (or a few domains). This eliminates the need to do a DNS lookup to fetch the public key each time an email's DKIM or DomainKey signature is verified.

This method may be called multiple times -- once for each selector/domain to be pre-fetched. The verify methods (VerifyDkimSignature and VerifyDomainKeySignature) will use a pre-fetched key if the selector and domain match.

Events

AbortCheck

Event OnAbortCheck

Provides the opportunity for a method call to be aborted. The AbortCheck event is fired periodically based on the value of the HeartbeatMs property. If HeartbeatMs is 0, then no AbortCheck events will fire. As an example, to fire 5 AbortCheck events per second, set the HeartbeatMs property equal to 200.

PercentDone

Event OnPercentDone

Provides the percentage completed for any method that involves network communications or time-consuming processing (assuming it is a method where a percentage completion can be measured). This event is only fired when it is possible to know a percentage completion, and when it makes sense to express the operation as a percentage completed. The pctDone argument will have a value from 1 to 100. For operations (Chilkat method calls) that complete very quickly, the number of PercentDone callbacks will vary, but the final callback should have a value of 100. For long running operations, no more than one callback per percentage point will occur (for example: 1, 2, 3, ... 98, 99, 100).

The PercentDone callback counts as an AbortCheck event. For method calls that complete quickly such that PercentDone events fire, it may be that AbortCheck events don't fire because the opportunity to abort is already provided in the PercentDone callback. For time consuming operations, where the amount of time between PercentDone callbacks are long, AbortCheck callbacks may be used to allow for the operation to be aborted in a more responsive manner.

The abort output argument provides a means for aborting the operation. Setting it to True will cause the method to abort and return a failed status (or whatever return value indicates failure).

ProgressInfo

Event OnProgressInfo

A general name/value event that provides information about what is happening during a method call. To find out what information is available, write code to handle this event and log the name/value pairs. Most are self-explanatory.